Gail McConnell

Gail McConnell is a writer from Belfast. She is the author of Fothermather (Ink Sweat & Tears, 2019), Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018) and Northern Irish Poetry and Theology (Palgrave, 2014). Fothermather, an exploration of queer parenthood, was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and made into a programme for Radio 4. Her debut poetry book, The Sun is Open, was published by Penned in the Margins in Sept 2021.
The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the author’s father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Moving between child and adult voices, past and present, this startlingly innovative debut attempts to decode the fragments left behi

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